Cabinet.



PATENTED SEPT. 19, 1905.

P. FISCHER.

CABINET.

APPLIOATION FILED s112114. 1904.

. fin# EDWARD F. FISCHER, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

CABINET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 19, 1905.

Application iiled September 14, 1904:. Serial No. 224,450,

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Be it known that I, EDWARD F. FISCHER, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cabinets. of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in cabinets to be used for displaying pills, medicine, and the like; and it consists in the novel arrangement, construction, and `combination of parts, as will be hereinafter fully describedv and claimed.

rlhe object of my invention is to construct a cabinet having a plurality of doors suitably hinged to the inner vertical wall of the cabinet and each of said doors being provided with a plurality of shelves for displaying pillbottles and the like.

A further object of my invention is by arranging each of the doors with4 shelves and a shelf in the body proper in alinement withthe door-shelves the bottlesJiasks, or packages containing the pills, medicine, or the like are arranged so that the labelsupon each of the packages on the several shelves can be readily seen and read.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my complete invention, showing one of the doors open. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectionalL View taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1 and viewed in lthe direction as indicated by the arrow. Fig.

3 is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2, showing two of its doors open. Fig. 4L is a detail perspective view of a portion of the door-frame and the shelving with parts thereof broken away. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of a corner of one of the door-.frames with parts broken away, showing the key-plate by which the shelfframe is supported thereto. Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of one corner of the shelfframe, showing the pin by which it is suspended to the door-frame.

In the construction of the device as shown I provide a cabinet consisting of a base-section 7 and a cabinet-section 8, which is formed with the usual sides, back, top, and bottom and provided with a plurality of shelves 9, supported therein in the usual manner. To

the inner surface of the sides are hinged doors 10, which form the front section of the cabinet, and upon the inner surface at the upper corners and in the center of the lower rail of the door-frame are embedded key-plates 11,

which are for the purpose to receive pins 12, locatedon the shelf-frame 13. The vertical rails of the door-frame are provided with grooves 14, arranged at intervals apart, in which are inserted and supported the hori-- zontal shelf members 15. The said shelf members 15 are each provided with a back 16, being rigidly attached to the frame 13 and so arranged that the entire series of shelves in connection with its frame may be readily inserted and removed from the door-frames at will. On the inner surface of the sides and immediately to the rear of the first doors are provided strips 17, to which is hinged a second door 18, being identical in construction with the door previously described.

The base 7 is provided with a desk-slide 19, large drawers 20, and a plurality of prescription-file drawers 21.

The shelves in the cabinet and also those in the doors are arranged on a horizontal plane, as shown in Fig. 2', and the bottles, packages, and the like placed thereon are arranged the smallest in front and the largest to the rear, so that each label on all of the bottles, packages, or the like can be readily and easily read through the glass of the several doors, and should the druggist or physician desire to gain access to either of said bottles the doors are opened as desired and the bottle removed from the shelf without disturbing the remainder of the bottles. The purpose of securing the shelves to the shelf-frame is to be able to remove the entire section and its contents when desiring to` clean the glass of the door.

A cabinet of this construction has utility and novelty, for the reason that it economizes space and permits instant access and allows the contents in all of the bottles to be read from without while all ofthe doors are closed.

WVhat I claim is-- 1. A cabinet of the class described comprising an upper and a lower section, a plurality of drawers formed in the lower section,

.shelves formed in the upper section, a suitable set of doors located in the upper section, a shelf-frame, a plurality of shelves connected to the shelf-frame, the said shelves and shelfframe being Iremovably secured to the doors, substantially as specified.

2. A cabinet of the class described, having a section provided with doors one of said doors located to the rear of the other, keyplates embedded in the inner surface at the upper corners and in the center of the lower IOO IIO

rail of the door, a shelf-frame provided with be readily seen when the doors are closed, pins to be inserted in the key-plates for supsubstantially as specified. IO

porting said frarne to the doors, a plurality In testirnonywhereofl aiX my signature in of shelves carried by the shelf-'frame and arpresence of two Witnesses.

5 ranged to till the space formed by the thiek- EDVARD F. FISCHER.

ness of the door, the shelves in the doors and Witnesses: cabinet being arranged on a horizontal plane FRED MICHELs, so that the goods Carried by said shelves can GEO. BROWN. 

